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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

My micro economics would tell me it's that the demand curve is shifting upwards, while the supply curve is at best the same, of not going lower (currently), so the intersecting price where they meet goes up. While it may be artificial, more demand on the same supply increases prices typically. Depending on the elasticity of the demand for the product (toys VS household electricity costs for example), the market will bare the increases if it deems it essential.

But those were lessons from 15 years ago, this brave new world of open corruption and greed have probably up ended some of those concepts. The circular fake economy of a half a dozen tech companies can probably only sustain itself for so long, I guess we'll see how it all pans out